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Thank You to our Wonderful NIN Volunteers
This heartfelt letter came from Karen and Suzanne (Bereavement Services Coordinators at Banner Desert Hospital): “We can’t thank you enough for the burial layettes and newborn kits you provided for our bereavement program. The love and care you put into these items is so apparent. Our grieving parents are able to see their babies presented so beautifully. It is part of a lasting memory that they will cherish forever. Thanks again for your dedication to our program.”
As some of you know, our Chapter President has some burial clothes on hand for special requests from hospitals and individuals – if you know someone that needs help, please let them know about us. We are so blessed to be a part of this GREAT program!
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Chapter Meeting
Our next monthly meeting will be at JoAnn Fabrics, 965 S. Gilbert Road, Mesa, AZ from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Francis Martinez will demonstrate making appliqués with an embroidery machine and then ironing them on onesies. We will also tie ribbon on sets of diapers, soap, and washcloths for newborn kits.
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NIN National News
As of September 1, 2007, the NEW National NIN President is Connie Edwards, past president of the North Carolina Chapter. We welcome Connie and her NIN Dream Team and look forward to working with her!
Family Circle magazine would like to do an article on NIN and are needing photographs of NIN volunteers sewing Christmas stockings, stuffing stockings and participating in Christmas-related projects. This should be easy for all of you! Get out your cameras and start recording your sewing groups, work meetings, Humanitarian groups, etc. Please scan them in email or just give to any board member. THANKS! (Also, this is a good time to help our chapter newsletter – pictures make it SO much more interesting!)
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President’s Report
We would like to welcome several new volunteers: Kris Balzar and several other ladies at the Gilbert Senior Center make beautiful items including hats and blankets! Also, this past month a volunteer donated her baby’s gently used clothes – and her baby is only 6 months old! A group of young women donated 326 memory cards, and two Service-Learning students donated crocheted afghans, tied quilts, made loom hats and stuffed animals! Way to go!
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Look What We Accomplished
In August, 4,059 items, and 48.5 pounds of fabric were received. We donated 4,455 finished items with 3,249 volunteer hours. We gave donations to St. Joseph’s Hospital NICU & CTICU, Los Niños Hospital, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Mesa Family Health Center, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital and the families of two stillborn babies. Our donations included 120 newborn kits, 48 quilts, 15 afghans, 2 blankets, 23 receiving blankets, 80 beanie snakes, 657 hats, 21 burial layettes (20 small preemie and 1 medium preemie), 70 NICU layettes, 20 large memory fabric envelopes, 10 mini-memory fabric envelopes, 10 toys, 1 baby book, 30 pairs of extra-small booties, 52 memory cards, 34 new clothes, 619 gently-used clothes and bedding, 56 toiletries, 2 wall-hangings, 62 toddler-size diapers, 40 preemie-size diapers, 3 cans of baby formula, 4 two-piece flatware sets, 9 three-piece baby manicure sets, 19 baby bottles, 420 diaper wipes, 8 disposable changing pads, 56 pacifiers, 1 pacifier holder, 47 washcloths, and 3 crib sheets.
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The Basha’s fundraiser began September 1st. Ask the cashier to key in our number, 23506, when you present your Thank You Card, then 1% of your total purchases Sept 1-March 31 will be donated to Newborns in Need (up to $2,500). Share our number with your friends and neighbors!
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